If You Liked Snowden, Watch These Next
Finished Snowden (2016) and want more of the same? These 20 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Snowden, most of them are drama, history, crime.
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20 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.Official Secrets(2019)
7.2ThrillerHistoryDramaAlso thriller and history
The true story of British intelligence whistleblower Katharine Gun who—prior to the 2003 Iraq invasion—leaked a top-secret NSA memo exposing a joint US-UK illegal spying operation against members of the UN Security Council. The memo proposed blackmailing member states into voting for war.
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2.Breach(2007)
6.6DramaThrillerCrimeAlso drama and thriller
Eric O'Neill, a low-level surveillance expert with the FBI, believes he is accomplishing his dream of becoming a full-fledged agent, with his unexpected promotion and assignment to clerk for Robert Hanssen, a renowned senior agent with 25 years in the FBI. However, he soon learns the reason for his promotion is to…
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3.Richard Jewell(2019)
7.4DramaHistoryCrimeAlso drama and history
Richard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they explode during a concert, only to be falsely suspected of the crime by sloppy FBI work and sensational media coverage.
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4.The Courier(2020)
7.0ThrillerHistoryDramaAlso thriller and history
Cold War spy Greville Wynne and his Russian source try to put an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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5.The Quiller Memorandum(1966)
5.9ThrillerDramaCrimeAlso thriller and drama
After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi group known as Phoenix, the suave agent Quiller is sent to Berlin to investigate.
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6.All the President's Men(1976)
7.7DramaMysteryThrillerAlso drama and thriller
During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from his post.
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7.The Independent(2022)
6.5ThrillerMysteryCrimeAlso thriller and crime
It's the final weeks of the most consequential presidential election in history. America is poised to elect either its first female president or its first viable independent candidate. Reporting history as it's made, an idealistic young journalist teams up with her idol, legendary journalist Nick Booker, to uncover a…
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9.Conspiracy Theory(1997)
6.6ActionDramaMysteryAlso drama and thriller
A man obsessed with conspiracy theories becomes a target after one of his theories turns out to be true. Unfortunately, in order to save himself, he has to figure out which theory it is.
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10.F.I.S.T.(1978)
6.5DramaActionCrimeAlso drama and crime
Johnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in the organization. As he climbs higher and higher his methods become more ruthless and finally senator Madison starts a campaign to find the truth about the alleged connections with the Mob.
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11.Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit(2014)
6.1ActionDramaThrillerAlso drama and thriller
Jack Ryan, as a young covert CIA analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack.
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12.The House on Carroll Street(1988)
5.9DramaThrillerAlso drama and thriller
A reporter, fired after refusing to give names to a 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee, takes a part-time job as companion to an old lady. While working she overhears a noisy argument in the neighboring house, being conducted largely in German and involving her HUAC prosecutor. She begins to investigate,…
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13.The Conversation(1974)
7.5CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.
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15.The Hunting Party(2007)
6.5ActionAdventureThrillerAlso thriller and drama
A young journalist, an experienced cameraman and a discredited reporter find their bold plan to capture Bosnia's top war criminal quickly spiraling out of control when a UN representative mistakes them for a CIA hit squad.
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16.The Falcon and the Snowman(1985)
6.4ThrillerDramaCrimeAlso thriller and drama
The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.
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17.The Sum of All Fears(2002)
6.4ThrillerActionDramaAlso thriller and drama
When the president of Russia suddenly dies, a man whose politics are virtually unknown succeeds him. The change in political leaders sparks paranoia among American CIA officials, so CIA director Bill Cabot recruits a young analyst to supply insight and advice on the situation. Then the unthinkable happens: a nuclear…
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18.The Bourne Ultimatum(2007)
7.4ActionDramaMysteryAlso drama and thriller
Bourne is brought out of hiding once again by reporter Simon Ross who is trying to unveil Operation Blackbriar, an upgrade to Project Treadstone, in a series of newspaper columns. Information from the reporter stirs a new set of memories, and Bourne must finally uncover his dark past while dodging The Company's best…
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19.The Parts You Lose(2019)
6.7DramaCrimeThrillerAlso drama and crime
An unlikely friendship unfolds between a young deaf boy, Wesley, and a fugitive criminal who takes refuge in an abandoned barn on the family’s rural North Dakota farm.
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20.Rendition(2007)
6.4DramaThrillerAlso drama and thriller
When an Egyptian terrorism suspect "disappears" on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his American wife and a CIA analyst find themselves caught up in a struggle to secure his release from a secret detention facility somewhere outside the US.
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